- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:09:19 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: Tony Hansen <tony@maillennium.att.com>, apps-discuss@ietf.org, www-tag@w3.org
Bjoern Hoehrmann writes:
> Saying that an inferior authority must obey a superior authority does
> not imply that the superior authority is limited by choices any such
> inferior authorities have made. We might find that taking such choices
> into consideration is the responsible thing to do, but that is not what
> the text says, and certainly not how authorities tend to operate. Look
> no further than the +xml discussions where people do not find they need
> to re-define +xml in a manner compatible with all existing +xml types.
Actually, we've been continuing to struggle with that, and I _believe_
the next draft of 3023bis will fix that.
ht
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